This beautifully presented Type 51 Cooper-Maserati is offered with full FIA Historic documentation and is the car campaigned in the Goodwood Revival meetings of recent years by none other than five-times Le Mans winner and past World Champion sports car driver Derek Bell. Delivered new in 1959 to Australian customer Noel Hall, it was equipped with a 4-cylinder ‘2-litre’ Coventry Climax FPF engine. During 1960 the original Climax engine was enlarged to 2.2-litres and in 1961 the original chassis was stripped of useful components which were used to complete a replacement Renmax racing car. The redundant chassis and body eventually sold to John Maitland of Concord, NSW, in July 1963 to be fitted with a 1500cc Ford engine. The car passed to John Mason who advertised it for sale in July 1968. It was acquired by Graham Wood who had Bob Brittan restore it with the missing original parts. A 2-litre long-stroke Climax engine was fitted and the car was raced in Historic events up to the mid 1970s. In 1977 it was sold to Joel Finn, passing subsequently to Bob Rubin in New York. In 1990 the engineless rolling-chassis was sold through our Monaco Sale to Steve O’Rourke, together with a Maserati 4-cylinder engine offered as a separate Lot. The engine now fitted is particularly interesting as it is not the so-familiar Coventry Climax FPF but an Italian 4-cylinder twin-overhead cam unit as developed originally by Maserati for installation in the rear-end of 1961-62 Formula 1 chassis. While the original 4-cylinder Maserati sports-racing car engines were of 1,500cc, this particular unit has been rebuilt in 2-litre form enabling the car to compete in the popular 2-litre Formula 1 category of current Historic racing. Maserati company historian Ermano Cozza has confirmed in a letter that engine ‘6-003’ was first supplied to the Yeoman Credit Racing Team in January 1961, which will surprise many enthusiasts who recall the Yeoman Credit team as campaigning exclusively Coventry Climax engines. Mr O’Rourke had the car completed in this Cooper-Maserati form, and has entered it for Derek Bell in the Goodwood Revival events. This extremely attractive Anglo-Italian Historic racing Grand Prix car is offered here with a considerable paperwork file and a properly established provenance as an ‘on the button’ Historic race entry.
This beautifully presented Type 51 Cooper-Maserati is offered with full FIA Historic documentation and is the car campaigned in the Goodwood Revival meetings of recent years by none other than five-times Le Mans winner and past World Champion sports car driver Derek Bell. Delivered new in 1959 to Australian customer Noel Hall, it was equipped with a 4-cylinder ‘2-litre’ Coventry Climax FPF engine. During 1960 the original Climax engine was enlarged to 2.2-litres and in 1961 the original chassis was stripped of useful components which were used to complete a replacement Renmax racing car. The redundant chassis and body eventually sold to John Maitland of Concord, NSW, in July 1963 to be fitted with a 1500cc Ford engine. The car passed to John Mason who advertised it for sale in July 1968. It was acquired by Graham Wood who had Bob Brittan restore it with the missing original parts. A 2-litre long-stroke Climax engine was fitted and the car was raced in Historic events up to the mid 1970s. In 1977 it was sold to Joel Finn, passing subsequently to Bob Rubin in New York. In 1990 the engineless rolling-chassis was sold through our Monaco Sale to Steve O’Rourke, together with a Maserati 4-cylinder engine offered as a separate Lot. The engine now fitted is particularly interesting as it is not the so-familiar Coventry Climax FPF but an Italian 4-cylinder twin-overhead cam unit as developed originally by Maserati for installation in the rear-end of 1961-62 Formula 1 chassis. While the original 4-cylinder Maserati sports-racing car engines were of 1,500cc, this particular unit has been rebuilt in 2-litre form enabling the car to compete in the popular 2-litre Formula 1 category of current Historic racing. Maserati company historian Ermano Cozza has confirmed in a letter that engine ‘6-003’ was first supplied to the Yeoman Credit Racing Team in January 1961, which will surprise many enthusiasts who recall the Yeoman Credit team as campaigning exclusively Coventry Climax engines. Mr O’Rourke had the car completed in this Cooper-Maserati form, and has entered it for Derek Bell in the Goodwood Revival events. This extremely attractive Anglo-Italian Historic racing Grand Prix car is offered here with a considerable paperwork file and a properly established provenance as an ‘on the button’ Historic race entry.
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